On 30/06/11 15:54, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:16:02 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I run rsync on headless web and mail servers as well as desktops. None >> of them lost rsync (none of them run Symantec). > > I meant Synaptic. Sorry for a typo. > > I used Symantec last time probably in Windows 95 or 98. But somehow until > today I quite often mistype it for Synaptic. Very persistent > infection. :-)
:-D > >> 90 packages! >> Do your have "everything" installed? ;-p > > Well, I have a default Squeeze install here, whatever comes with it. > > However now the size of update I've mentioned worries me. I actually was > surprised by the size of the update at the time it appeared too. > >> None of mine/ours received that many packages in the last point release. >> Perhaps you had not been regularly upgrading prior to the 6.0.2 release? > > My Update Manager is set up to update daily, and so it does. One more > point to be worried for me. No reason to be concerned just yet. > >> Do you mean just "rsync", the daemon, or some sort of gui for it? > > No, I do not use gui. But neither I use a daemon. I usually just install > rsync on my workstation and then run via cron my own script for daily > backup and once a couple of weeks I run manually another script. Both > scripts just invoke rsync. I do a snapshot like backup with rsync. > >> Have you tried re-installing rsync using apt? Any interesting messages? > > Yes, I re-install rsync but did not see anything unusual. > >> Please post the output of:- >> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall > > http://www.pastie.org/2143341 Nothing in that list that I'd expect would pull off rsync with it. My only thought are that maybe something like deborphan/foster/bleachbit or similar "may" have removed it as unneeded... which would be a worry. > >> and your cron log > > Last day I have a good backup > > http://www.pastie.org/2143359 > > Then following 2 days when backup failed due to rsync was mysteriously > removed: > > http://www.pastie.org/2143354 > http://www.pastie.org/2143375 I'd expect that (no rsync, no backup). > > Nothing special. > >> plus any relevant messages in /var/log > > Nothing relevant AFAICS. > >> Also check your system for unread system mail. > > There is mail reporting cron job failed starting 2 days ago and this from > rkhunter: > > http://www.pastie.org/2143404 rkhunter - McAfee for Linux :-( To check:- cat /bin/netstat | strings | grep "/dev/caca" > > rkhunter seem to be known false positives, unless I'm mistaken. Aah - I'd add rkhunter to possible causes of the removal of rysync.. If you had logging enabled - take a look at /var/log/rkhunter.log eg:- cat /var/log/rkhunter.log | grep rsync > > Well, I start thinking about reinstall. I do not like mysteries. :-( Probably best to solve this mystery before re-installing. NOTE: this is when remote logging and tripwire is handy. > > And thanks for your reply. > Cheers -- "This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart." ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0c1678.7060...@gmail.com
